shachach · forget

What it means

shachach (שָׁכַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “forget”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To stop remembering someone or something, or to stop taking it into account.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To forget: to cease to keep someone or something in mind, through carelessness or abandonment. BDB: to mislay, that is, to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention.

• Forgetting YHWH: the warning and the fall Deuteronomy 6:12Judges 3:7Hosea 4:6
• “Do not forget any of his benefits” Psalms 103:2
• “Will you forget me forever?”: the complaint of the one who prays Psalms 13:1
• “I will not forget you” Isaiah 49:15
• Forgetting a person: the cupbearer and Joseph Genesis 40:23

How we translate it

Always “forget”: “forget” 45 times, “forgotten” 43, “they forgot” 6, “forgot” 5, “forgets” 3. In Deuteronomy 25:19 לֹא תִּשְׁכָּח is “you shall not forget”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• forget ×45
• forgotten ×43
• they forgot ×6
• forgot ×5
• forgets ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×14
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×7
• Psalms×33
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×13
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×5
• Amos×1

• Genesis 27:45

  until your brother’s anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

• Genesis 40:23

  Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

• Genesis 41:30

  But after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the land.

• Deuteronomy 4:9

  Only guard yourself and keep your soul carefully, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and to the children of your children.

• Deuteronomy 4:23

  Guard yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of YHWH your Elohim, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything, contrary to what YHWH your Elohim commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 4:31

  For a merciful El is YHWH your Elohim; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant of your fathers that he swore to them.

• Deuteronomy 6:12

  guard yourself so that you do not forget YHWH, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.

• Deuteronomy 8:11

  Guard yourself so that you do not forget YHWH your Elohim by not keeping his commandments, his rules, and his statutes that I am commanding you today;

• Deuteronomy 8:14

  and your heart is lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves,

• Deuteronomy 8:19

  But it will be, if you do forget YHWH your Elohim and go after other gods and serve them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

• Deuteronomy 9:7

  Remember, do not forget, how you made YHWH your Elohim angry in the wilderness. From the day that you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 24:19

  When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hands.

• Deuteronomy 25:19

  Therefore it shall be, when YHWH your Elohim has given rest to you from all your enemies around, in the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. You shall not forget.

• Deuteronomy 26:13

  then you shall say before YHWH your Elohim, “I have removed the holy portion from the house, and I have also given it to the Levite and to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all your commandment that you commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten.

• Deuteronomy 31:21

  And it shall be, when many evils and troubles have found them, that this song will testify before them as a witness, for it will not be forgotten from the mouths of their offspring. For I know their inclination, what they are doing today, before I bring them into the land that I swore.”

• Deuteronomy 32:18

  The Rock that bore you you neglected, and you forgot El who gave you birth.

• Judges 3:7

  The sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH; they forgot YHWH their Elohim and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

• 1 Samuel 1:11

  And she made a vow and said, “YHWH Tsevaot, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant and give your servant offspring of men, then I will give him to YHWH all the days of his life, and a razor shall not come up on his head.”

• 1 Samuel 12:9

  But they forgot YHWH their Elohim, and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

• 2 Kings 17:38

  The covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods;

• Job 8:13

  So are the paths of all who forget El, and the hope of the godless perishes,

• Job 9:27

  If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put away my sad face and brighten up,’

• Job 11:16

  for you will forget suffering; like waters that have passed by you will remember it.

• Job 19:14

  My relatives have ceased, and my intimates have forgotten me.

• Job 24:20

  The womb forgets him; the worms savor him; he is no longer remembered, and injustice is broken like a tree.

• Job 28:4

  He breaks open a shaft far from where people live; forgotten by the foot, they hang far from mortals, they sway.

• Job 39:15

  and forgets that a foot may crush them, and the animal of the field may trample them.

• Psalms 9:12

  For he who demands an accounting for blood has remembered them; he has not forgotten the cry of the humble.

• Psalms 9:18

  For not forever will the needy be forgotten; the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

• Psalms 10:11

  He says in his heart, “El has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will not see it ever.”

• Psalms 10:12

  Rise up, YHWH; El, lift up your hand; do not forget the humble.

• Psalms 13:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. How long, YHWH? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 31:12

  I have been forgotten like a dead man, out of the heart; I have become like a broken vessel.

• Psalms 42:9

  I will say to El my crag, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go about in mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

• Psalms 44:17

  All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we been false to your covenant.

• Psalms 44:20

  If we had forgotten the name of our Elohim and spread out our palms to a strange god,

• Psalms 44:24

  Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

• Psalms 45:10

  Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear; and forget your people and the house of your father,

• Psalms 50:22

  Understand now this, you who forget Eloah, lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver.

• Psalms 59:11

  Do not kill them, lest my people forget; make them wander by your power, and bring them down, our shield, Adonai.

And 62 more times.